Random thoughts on the Bible

I just had an interesting idea about what the Bible is. We were talking a lot about how we view the bible in spiritual formation the last few days. The modern view (modern as in era) is seeing it as a answer book, like a instruction manual or a cook book. We were saying that that kind of is a turnoff nowadays because the postmodern world now is dead set on being independent. So the way that we should be looking at it is as more of a history book. Now when Sharla said that the very thing that I thought was "Yech, now I REALLY don't want to read it." And in my view that totally takes away from the power of the Bible. Having it merely as a history book makes it unimportant. I can get along just fine without having a clue about who the first person was. Plus it really doesn't have all that much bearing on the world today. Sure the past affects the present, but it isn't the present. It doesn't change me. So then I got to thinking, cuz I agree that the view of the Bible as an answer book is also not all that great. A bit too rigid and impersonal. So what I think the Bible is... Ready for it? I think the Bible is like a conversation. It is the word of God right? So doesn't that kind of imply that it is God's words to us? Him talking to us almost? And then look at what a conversation is. It is a means of getting closer to whomever you are talking to. It can be used to instruct, discipline, encourage, or tell a really cool true story! Just a thought.